You crown the year with Your bounty, and Your paths overflow with plenty.
Parallel translations
- WEB You crown the year with your bounty. Your carts overflow with abundance.
- KJV Thou crownest the year with thy goodness; and thy paths drop fatness.
- NKJV You crown the year with Your goodness, And Your paths drip with abundance.
- NASB You have crowned the year with Your goodness, And Your paths drip with fatness.
- NLT You crown the year with a bountiful harvest; even the hard pathways overflow with abundance.
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Quick answer
God crowns the year with His bounty, and abundance overflows His paths. It praises God as the source of all good provision.
Overview
David pictures the year itself crowned with God's goodness, His tracks dripping with abundance. The seasons of harvest are gifts of divine generosity. Every good and perfect gift comes down from the Father, fully displayed in His gift of the Son.
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Cross-references · 13
- Joel 2:21–26Do not be afraid, O land; rejoice and be glad, for the LORD has done great things.
- Ps 103:4who redeems your life from the Pit and crowns you with loving devotion and compassion,
- Ps 5:12For surely You, O LORD, bless the righteous; You surround them with the shield of Your favor.
- Ps 36:8They feast on the abundance of Your house, and You give them drink from Your river of delights.
- Hag 2:19Is there still seed in the barn? The vine, the fig, the pomegranate, and the olive tree have not yet yielded fruit. But from this day on, I will bless you.”
- Mal 3:10Bring the full tithe into the storehouse, so that there may be food in My house. Test Me in this,” says the LORD of Hosts. “See if I will not open the windows of heaven and pour out for you blessing without measure.
- Prov 14:18The simple inherit folly, but the prudent are crowned with knowledge.
- Heb 2:7–9You made him a little lower than the angels; You crowned him with glory and honor
- Ps 25:10All the LORD’s ways are loving and faithful to those who keep His covenant and His decrees.
- Joel 2:14Who knows? He may turn and relent and leave a blessing behind Him—grain and drink offerings for the LORD your God.
- Job 36:28which the clouds pour out and shower abundantly on mankind.
- Ps 104:3laying the beams of His chambers in the waters above, making the clouds His chariot, walking on the wings of the wind.
- Rom 11:17Now if some branches have been broken off, and you, a wild olive shoot, have been grafted in among the others to share in the nourishment of the olive root,
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